KYC — Know your company — INFOSYS

4 min readJan 18, 2022

Infosys is an Indian IT company primarily engaged in IT Consulting & Software Services, Application Development, Product Development, System Engineering & Implementation. It was founded in 1981 by Mr.Narayana Murthy and is one of the biggest IT companies in the world. So without wasting much time let’s dive deep to explore something you don’t know. Here are some facts to give you a jest of the monstrous size of Infosys -

Market Cap — 7.2 trillion (3% of India’s GDP)
Annual Revenue — 1 trillion (Greater than combined revenues of all Indian unicorns as of 2020)
Net Profit — 20,000 crores
Total employees — 2.5 lakh+ (Perhaps far more than the total number of CS/IT studying students of all years of all colleges in India combined!)
Presence in 50+ countries & 80+ subsidiaries (Excellent chances of getting placed in the foreign division of Infy!)
R&D expense per year — 1000 crore
Investments in Money markets — 14205 crore

Following is the list of domains where Infosys has major operations -

BLOCKCHAIN
ENGINEERING SERVICES & IoT
CYBERSECURITY
AGILE & DEVOPS
API & MICROSERVICES
CLOUD
ORACLE & SAP
AI & DATA ANALYTICS
APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT & MAINTENANCE
CONSULTING

Following are the business units of Infosys along with % contribution in revenues -

• Financial Services and Insurance — 32.5%

• Life Sciences and Healthcare — 6.8%

• Retail, Consumer Packaged Goods and Logistics — 14.7%

• Communications, Telecom OEM and Media — 12.6%

• Energy, Utilities, Resources, and Services — 12.5%

• Manufacturing — 9.4%

• Hi-tech — 8.6%

• Others, which includes India, Japan, China, Infosys Public Services, and other Public Service enterprises — 2.9%

Revenue by geography -

North America — 61.6%

Europe — 24.3%

India — 2.9%

Rest of World — 11.6%

Infosys solutions have been primarily classified as DIGITAL and CORE -

Digital: Digital services comprise the service and solution offerings of Infosys to enable clients to transform their businesses. These include offerings that enhance customer experience, leverage AI-based analytics and Big Data, engineer digital products, and IoT, modernize legacy technology systems, migrate to cloud applications and implement advanced cybersecurity systems. It contributes 48% of the total revenue of Infosys

• Experience • Insight • Innovate • Accelerate • Assure

Core: Core services comprise traditional offerings of Infosys that have scaled and industrialized over a number of years. It contributes 52% of the total revenue of Infosys. These primarily include -

• Application management services • Proprietary application development services • Independent validation solutions • Product engineering and management • Infrastructure management services • Traditional enterprise application implementation • Support and integration services

Proprietary technologies of Infosys -

Infosys also derives revenues from the sale of products and platforms including Finacle® — core banking solution, Edge Suite of products, Infosys NIA® — Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform which applies next-generation AI and machine learning, Panaya® platform, Skava® platform, Stater digital platform, and Infosys McCamish — insurance platform.

Infosys investments in stocks (through preference/non-preference allotments) -

Airviz Inc

Whoop Inc

Nivetti Systems Inc

Trifacta

Tidalscale

Ideaforge Technology

Merasport Technologies

Global Innovation & Technology Alliance

Stellaris venture partners

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR FRESHERS — -

During fiscal 2021, Infosys received 14,27,618 employment applications, interviewed 1,35,216 applicants, and extended offers of employment to 48,029 applicants

Lex, the in-house learning platform, offers over 1,800 curated courses. Over 2,40,000 employees use Lex and are spending approximately 45 minutes per day on average for learning. Infosys has also repurposed Lex for over a million college students in India via their InfyTQ app.

Infosys management’s positive guidance is the highest for Cloud technology with it being touted as the next major disruptor in the world of technology.

Types of Internships -

Wintership

Duration — 76-day internship program, from December to April
Students taken — 500 from CS/IT background (only technical)
Stipend — Yes
Work locations — Mangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad
Upon successful completion, interns get a completion certificate and a priority joining date at Infosys.
PPO — Offered

Summership

Duration — 8 weeks
Students have taken — only from Management Background
Stipend — Yes
Work locations — Unspecified
PPO — Offered

Competitions -

HACK WITH INFY -

Duration — January — August
Prizes — 2 lakh, 1 lakh, 50k respectively & Top performers will get PPO, Job opportunities at Infosys
Eligibility — ONLY FINAL YEAR B.E., B.Tech, M.E., M.Tech STUDENTS
Total Participation — 1.67 lakh students

https://www.infosys.com/newsroom/features/2020/hackwithinfy-2020.html

INGENIOUS

Duration — July — October
Prizes — 5 lakh & 2 lakh respectively & Top performers will get PPO, Job opportunities at Infosys
Eligibility — ONLY FINAL YEAR MANAGEMENT STUDENTS
Total Participation — 15000 students
Colleges allowed — ONLY THOSE REGISTERED WITH INFOSYS AS PARTNER BUSINESS COLLEGES (Currently 80 colleges are there)

https://www.infosys.com/newsroom/features/2020/13th-edition-ingenious2020.html

Some interesting White Papers on projects undertaken by Infosys (For advanced readers)